Fastest Broadband Network Award

Ireland Q1-Q2 2020 Virgin Media is ’s Speedtest Awards™ Winner for fixed network speed. To win this award, Virgin Media achieved a Speed Score™ of 95.18, with top speeds of 255.18 Mbps for download and 46.86 Mbps for upload. Virgin Media also achieved the fastest In-Home Wi-Fi with 90th percentile speeds of 251.23 Mbps for download and 45.36 for upload giving them an In-Home Wi-Fi Speed Score of 117.20. Speed Score 95.18 Broadband Statistics Test Top Top Average Count Download Speed: Upload Speed: Latency:

Carrier User Speed Count Score 3,555,759 204.81 Mbps 48.50 Mbps 26 ms Virgin 174,762 95.18 Media Mbps Mbps ms Vodafone 138,085 48.82 Virgin Media 819,475 255.18 46.86 16 163,255 39.59 Vodafone 768,153 175.95 135.14 22 Sky 43,985 36.53

eir 766,777 112.28 41.34 24 Imagine 28,895 29.78

Sky 194,226 95.33 29.73 25 Speed Score incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed Imagine 242,213 84.22 13.37 53 to rank network speed performance. See next page for more detail.

In-Home Wi-Fi Statistics

The fastest In-Home Wi-Fi is Speed Top Wi-Fi Top Wi-Fi Average calculated from the results of Carrier Score Download Speed Upload Speed Wi-Fi Latency speed tests taken over Wi-Fi connections. These tests come from various speedtest Mbps Mbps ms platforms and are combined into an overall Wi-Fi category. The Speed Score is applied Virgin Media 117.20 251.23 45.36 13 to the download and upload results from the tests taken on all Wi-Fi connections to Vodafone 46.61 156.42 117.68 19 determine the fastest In-Home provider. eir 39.73 111.42 38.76 21

Sky 38.35 99.42 29.12 23

Imagine 26.60 76.06 13.48 55 Fastest Broadband Network Award Ireland Q1-Q2 2020

How Speed Score Works When analyzing fastest operators, Ookla solely considers top carriers (all carriers with 3% or more of total test samples in the market for the period). We then determine the fastest carrier using Speed Score which incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance (90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10% to upload speed). The Speed Score uses a modified trimean to demonstrate the download and upload speeds that are available across a provider’s network. We take speeds from the 10th percentile, 50th percentile (also known as the median), and 90th percentile, and combine them in a weighted average using a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. We place the most emphasis on the download speeds and median speeds as those represent what most network providers’ customers will experience on a day-to-day basis.

Download 90th 50th 10th Upload 90th 50th 10th Provider Name Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile

Virgin Media 102.98 255.18 94.69 17.16 25.01 46.86 24.01 11.11

Vodafone 51.26 175.95 41.29 6.36 26.84 135.14 16.49 1.32

eir 41.91 112.28 37.74 4.92 18.68 41.34 18.11 0.56

Sky 38.81 95.33 35.88 5.73 16.01 29.73 16.24 0.53

Imagine 32.53 84.22 29.17 7.73 5.02 13.37 4.45 1.18

City Network Speeds

City Carrier Speed Score Mbps Mbps

Dublin Virgin Media 95.52 128.05 27.75 Vodafone 48.99 82.81 38.27 Sky 36.14 49.54 21.34 eir 36.43 47.80 19.87 3 10.38 13.94 11.60

City Carrier Speed Score Mbps Mbps

Cork Virgin Media 101.61 135.20 26.69 Digiweb 67.83 116.16 62.25 Vodafone 52.20 88.82 43.40 sky 38.54 59.74 25.16 eir 35.76 45.74 17.74

City Carrier Speed Score Mbps Mbps

Galway Virgin Media 90.95 125.74 25.60 Vodafone 49.44 85.88 41.11 Imagine 31.58 41.89 6.26 eir 37.18 54.41 20.14 Sky 60.12 97.75 43.44

Methodology 0 30 60 90 120 150 For more information on our methodology visit Speedtest.net/Awards